Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-24
LOCAL BREVITIES.
ST. John Wednesday evening.

|
Oscar Flint shipped 119 bales from hi.
mop yards, near Gait, few days since
: a party will be given by the ladies O
sumner Relief Corps at Turner Hall Fri
day evening.
Gait has ghost thai is making things
exceedingly lively in the wee small hours
of the night.
Incendiaries are travelling through the
southern portion Of the county setting fire
to stubble fields.
The farmers of Staten Island are busy
harvesting their bean crop, which is mus
ually heavy this year.
+. 5. Fenton was examined before JUS
tice of the Peace Davis, Saturday, for ma
i!clous mischief and discharged.
Saturday man by the name of Geary
undertook to pass forged check in Wood
land, and was arrested and jailed.
1t is rumored that Gait is to have an
elegant and commodious hotel erected
short distance west of the passenger depot
a young colored man named Bluitt, who
had his foot injured in a sawmill a few
days ago, died Saturday evening of lock-
jaw.
w. A. Bailey, who passed forged check
upon Geo. Weissmann, has been charged
with obtaining money under false pre-
lenses.
The recent raid made by the police on
the small boys who congregate around the
theater doors has certainly, from appear
ances, had the desired effect.
branch of the Young Mems Institute
was organized in Gait yesterday. num-
Der OF members of the branch Institutes at
Sacramento and Stockton were in attend
ance.
The persecution of Chief Engineer Sulli-
van at Sacramento, says the Gait Gazette,
looks as if it would result in disater to the
prosecutors. as some of them are to be
brought before the Grand Jury
John Carrick who stabbed Hugo Sprock
at the latters saloon near Antelope a few
weeks since, was indicted by the Grand
jury Friday for assault 10 commit murder. |
bench warrant was issued for his arrest |
AT present he is at liberty on 50 900 bonds |
A joint meeting of the Executive Com
mlttee OF the City and County Improve
ment Association, the City Board of Trade !
ana the Immigration Association will be !
held this evening at 429 street (Sacra-
mento Bank building), at 7:30, to consider
matters of importance.
Last evening about 10 o'clock a Young
man named Hogan and another individual |
whose name could not be learned engaged !
in fight on the north side of X street be- |
tween Third and Fourth. Though they |
rolled over the sidewalk quite energetic |
ally for few minutes, when they were
separated neither was much the worse for !
the encounter. No arrests.
The Gait Gazette says: Last Monday
night horse belonging to Elmer Smith
was stolen from the McCloughrv ranch,
four miles west of town. A horse belong
ing to Tom Stephens, of Placerville, disap-
peared mysteriously from John McFar-
lands place few weeks ago. There must
be horse thieves operating in the vicinity,
and farmers should be on the lookout
Yesterday afternoon people going out on
the ball trains noticed man living appa-
rently dead at Fifteenth and X streets. On
the return OF the trains he was lying in the
same place, and persons went 10 the sta
uon-houSe and informed Chief Diilman,
who drove out in his buggy to the scene,
but on arriving there saw no one. The
man had evidently been on booze"
The following named steamboats, arrived
Saturday and yesterday: San Joaquin No. |
T. from San Francisco, with general mer-
chandlse for Sacramento and a barge of
freight for the upper river; steamer Dover.
from the upper Sacramento, with q barge
load of sheep. Departed, steamers Varuna
for the upper river, with a barge-load of
freight, and San Joaquin No. 4 for tide
water with barge Of grain and broom
corn.
The average Signal Service temperature
on Saturday was go, being Sc warmer than
the normal for that day the highest
and lowest temperature was $50 and $40.
with gentle nOrtherly winds and clear
weather. The average Signal Service
temnaratDrp Yesterday W HEc haip.y
warmer than the normal for that dav. The
highest and lowest temperature was SO
and $50, with gentle to fresh and gentle
northerly winds and weather clear TO fair
and warm; wind at : p NJ was from the
sou.h, but light in velocity